The World This Hour - The World This Hour for 2025/06/15 at 06:00 EDT

Episode Date: June 15, 2025

The World This Hour for 2025/06/15 at 06:00 EDT

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This world's gonna eat you alive. Listen to Oracle Season 3, Murder at the Grandview, now on Audible. From CBC News, the world this hour. I'm Claude Faye. Liberals are hoping to pass their mega projects bill this coming week. But concerns are being raised about how much power

the law would give the federal government. David Thurton reports. For far too long, major projects, whether energy transmission lines, critical mineral developments, pipelines, or clean technology projects have been stalled by assessments and duplicative regulations. Dominic LeBlanc is the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and the One Canadian Economy. He urged MPBlanc is the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and the one Canadian economy. He urged MPs to accelerate the passing of his bill, which aims to fast-track mega projects.

The minority Liberal government needs support from other MPs to get the bill through, which they may get from the Conservatives, even though the party's energy and natural resources critic Shannon Stubbs says there's more red tape that could be cut. Canadians deserve a government that backs them, not a government that pees down our leg and tells us it's raining. According to the NDP and others, the legislation gives the Liberals the power to ram mega projects through the approval process, even if it means disregarding environmental laws and regulations. David Thurton, CBC News, Ottawa.

Day three in the battle between Israel and Iran and things appear to be intensifying. Israel says it hit missile storage and launch sites in western Iran in the past couple of hours. While in central Israel, a missile strike has destroyed buildings in the city of Bat Yam. At least four people are dead, another 100 wounded. Emergency crews are digging through the wreckage looking for victims and survivors. Here is Bat Yam's mayor. We don't have the exact number of people that are missing, but we do know that there's

a lot of people that haven't been in contact with their loved one yet. So now we are focusing on looking for them. Iran says oil depots have been hit but that the damage is under control and operations are back to normal. Yemen's Houthis meanwhile say they're firing missiles at Israel with Iran's assistance. US President Donald Trump said early this morning he thinks a deal can be done quickly to end the conflict, but he's warning Iran not to hit any American targets, vowing to unleash the full might of the US military at levels not seen before. The Iran-Israel conflict is expected to take over the G7 summit, which begins later today

in Cananascus, Alberta near Calgary. While nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran that were supposed to happen Sunday have now been scuttled. Meanwhile, Trump marked his 79th birthday yesterday and he got something he's wanted for years, a parade of military forts through the streets of Washington. That event, a celebration of the US Army's 250th anniversary. Sasha Petrusic has more.

To the soundtrack of marching bands and the rumble of fighting machines, Washington flexed its military might. It was exactly the celebration of the US military President Donald Trump has been asking for. Every other country celebrates their victories. It's about time America did too. There were 7,000 troops and millions of tons of armour, state-of-the-art tanks and ominous sounding helicopters under Washington's dark clouds.

The Americans who lined the route were enthralled. President Trump's been the best president that this country's ever had. This parade is long overdue. But for many others across the U.S., watching troops deployed to Los Angeles, it's a symbol of the militarization of the Trump White House. Sasha Petrusik, CBC News, Washington. Trump and his parade were protested in hundreds of cities and towns in the U.S. and some in Canada as well.

This is the demonstration in Toronto near the US Consulate followed by a march to the Ontario Legislature, protesters speaking out against the President's tariffs, annexation threats and increasing authoritarianism. And that is your World This Hour. For CBC News, I'm Claude Fink.